Barack Obama grew the federal bureaucracy a bit more recently by creating a new agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor global warming. According to a press release, this new bureaucracy will provide information to individuals and decision makers as we are “witnessing the impacts of climate change … including sea-level rise … earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters.”

That’s just what we need – more liberal bureaucrats paid with your tax dollars to justify more Big Government liberal policies like cap and trade energy taxes. Of course, yesterday’s planned press conference at the National Press Club to promote the new agency had to be cancelled because of the snow storm that shut down Washington, D.C. for the past two days.

And so much for that snowmelt. As Washington continues digging out, we’re bracing for another 10 to 20 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. I guess Al Gore came out of hiding, saw his shadow and guaranteed us six more weeks of winter! With each falling flake, Al’s global warming theory looks flakier and flakier.

By the way, cap and trade is not working as planned in Europe. But some are trying desperately to resuscitate it in the U.S. Senate, despite the many obituaries written lately for this massive energy tax.